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Year: Unknown, still open. Location: 89 Chestnut Street Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Status: Active, but not particularly secure. Accessibility: It's hard to say how far you could get in this hotel, since we were actually guests at the time we were messing about in it, but it's probably not too hard to make your way to the lobby elevators unmolested. Hazards: It's just a hotel, okay? Interesting features: The top floor, with the Cityview room, various machine rooms, and roof access. There's probably other nifty stuff scattered about, but such is the subject of a future excursion. Recommendation: If you're in the area... why not? August 15th, 2001 Our trip to the Colony Hotel in Toronto was made by a crew involving myself, Asher, Krall, Dain Bramaged, and NFF. We had planned to explore the subway tunnels and other assorted goodies in the area, and we did. Whenever we started falling asleep on our feet, we would make our way back to our modest room at the Colony and crash for a few hours -- and, honestly, is the hotel essentially maintaining and hosting an infiltration outing actually expected to stay unmolested throughout its duration? It was Krall, unable to sleep for some fool reason or another, who began meandering about the hotel to kill time. He discovered that the top floor was nifty, unique, was completely unsupervised and had an escalator. He decided to try some doors, and found the elevator control machine room, where he passed up the chance to steal a cordless PBX phone or some such thing. After we had all awoken, several of us proceeded up to the top floor to look into it ourselves. We soon discovered the rather nifty City View room -- a large, round room with a piano and several tables. The look of it was as if a convention had recently occurred there. We ran around a lot, looked for interesting stuff, tried to find ways to access its roofy perimeter, and then moved down to a large, square room below it. During our normal rooting procedures, we came across a few cans of pop, a large bowl full of candy and lots of various toast toppings. Dain Bramaged retrieved a garbage bag from a nearby utility closet, and we filled it with assorted confectioneries. Waste not, want not. Later, on our way back to our room with our large bag-o-goodies, a few people got on our elevator and eyed us rather strangely. Hooray! The elevator room provided the usual Machine Room fun and games -- shuffling around large high-voltage thingamies and flipping through manuals and timesheets, as well as a brief look around for a roof access hatch of any kind. While we were in the room, a sign stated that there were men currently working on one of the elevators, although we never did see them through any of the access panels to the shafts. Hopefully they similarly missed us. Later on, when we all went up again, we discovered the roof access hatch in a stairwell behind a visibly-alarmed (but partially-open) door down a corridor from the large square room. It had been tied shut with low-gauge wire, which we undid. NFF climbed up and peered around, then I went up to the roof to poke around. Eventually everyone followed me, and we spent a few minutes enjoying the view of the Toronto night skyline. NFF took a great group photo of us all up there, but the film got fried. Sigh. Hopefully we'll return to the Colony sometime to actually take some photos. Mind you, the candy was good... I believe I still have some, and this was months ago. Fun stuff. -Flame0ut . |